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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Chris Cleave

We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Bombs Horse Littles
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Country Horror Suffering
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much

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